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More wrangling over election issues… PPP objects to any extension of period between Nomination and Election Days

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on More wrangling over election issues… PPP objects to any extension of period between Nomination and Election Days

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), after meeting with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday and observing a press statement from GECOM released during the meeting, has objected to...

Low-cost JetBlue begins NY-Guyana flights from April – return tickets starting at US$550

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Low-cost JetBlue begins NY-Guyana flights from April – return tickets starting at US$550

Low-cost US carrier, JetBlue, has confirmed coming to Guyana and it will serve on the high-demand New York -Georgetown route. Tickets began selling yesterday with one-way starting at US$320 and...

Berbice man electrocuted in freak accident at Sophia

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man electrocuted in freak accident at Sophia

The workers and management of Annirude Ramcharitar Construction Company got what was probably the worse shock of their lives yesterday when one of their colleagues was electrocuted at a worksite at...

Local content policy will not scare us – European investors tell Guyana’s contingent

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local content policy will not scare us – European investors tell Guyana’s contingent

Despite recent assertions by US Ambassador and Co-Chair of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Sarah-Ann Lynch, that recent advocacy for local content policy and legislation in Guyana could serve...

Negotiations to end GTT’s monopoly… Several stakeholders still to be engaged

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Negotiations to end GTT’s monopoly… Several stakeholders still to be engaged

While light may be at the end of the tunnel, the ongoing negotiations between Government and US-owned Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is a complex series of exchanges that brings matters...

Bandits shoot teen during brazen attack on UG and CPCE students

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot teen during brazen attack on UG and CPCE students

In a brazen attack last night, robbers attacked two students from the University of Guyana and Cyril Potter College of Education, shooting one victim in the thigh and making off with $200 and two...

N/A prison escapee found at home

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on N/A prison escapee found at home

At just around 20:00 hrs last night, escaped New Amsterdam Prison inmate Rameshwar Prakash was recaptured by police attached to the Springlands Station at his home in Princetown, Upper Corentyne....

Minister runs to Bartica station to seek help for female robbery victim – decries no-show by lawmen after urgent call

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minister runs to Bartica station to seek help for female robbery victim – decries no-show by lawmen after urgent call

An early morning incident in Bartica has opened the eyes of a sitting minister of the Coalition Government. Minister with Responsibility for Youth Affairs, Simona Broomes, took to her Facebook page...

Blame Dorian fuh everything

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame Dorian fuh everything

Today is a day dem boys will always remember. It was de day when people kill Guyanese who didn’t do dem nutten. De problem was dat these Guyanese decide to live in de States and the odda people was...

The private sector is on a hustle

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The private sector is on a hustle

The debate over local content policy is pointless. It is akin to asking for a nuclear policy for Guyana. There is no need for asking for such a policy, because Guyana will never acquire nuclear...

Serial robber to serve three years behind bars

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Serial robber to serve three years behind bars

A 26-year-old man dubbed a ‘menace to society’ was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison on 10 charges – an additional charge was dropped. Travis Payne was accused of nine armed...

Friction in Region Two reaches boiling point… REO accused of assaulting Vice Chair

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Friction in Region Two reaches boiling point… REO accused of assaulting Vice Chair

Months of political friction within the Region Two Regional Democratic Council (RDC) reached a boiling point yesterday, when the Regional Executive Officer (REO), Denis Jaikaran, was brought before...

Businessman touts end to landfill sites –makes pitch to set up incinerator, recycling plant

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman touts end to landfill sites –makes pitch to set up incinerator, recycling plant

An incinerator and recycling plant have been proposed to end the environmental and financial woes associated with dumping garbage at the sanitary landfill site, at Haags Bosch, Eccles, East Bank...

Fraud charge against security guard dismissed

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fraud charge against security guard dismissed

A 28-year-old security guard who was charged in May, for obtaining money from another by fraudulently converting it for his own use, had the matter against him dismissed yesterday. Akeem Bacon, of...

Man freed of two rape charges

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man freed of two rape charges

“I am feeling very relaxed,” expressed 36-year-old Nandram Ganesh moments after he was freed on two rape charges by a jury. Ganesh had been accused of raping a 26-year-old woman during January...

Cleft lip/palate patients being better managed at GPHC …as ‘Smile Train’ comes to the rescue

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cleft lip/palate patients being better managed at GPHC …as ‘Smile Train’ comes to the rescue

Patients suffering from cleft palates/lips – a congenital deformity – are now going to be better managed through a humanitarian outreach initiative between the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Parasram hits unbeaten century at Shivanandan Madholall’s sixth memorial softball match

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Parasram hits unbeaten century at Shivanandan Madholall’s sixth memorial softball match

Led by an unbeaten 117 from Rovindra Parasram, Reliance Hustlers thrashed Reliance Veterans by 105 runs last Sunday in the sixth annual Shivanandan Madholall 15-over memorial softball match which was...

NBS launches 8th annual GCA 2nd Division 40-over Tourney Fifteen-team tournament starts Sept 29

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on NBS launches 8th annual GCA 2nd Division 40-over Tourney Fifteen-team tournament starts Sept 29

By Sean Devers A cheque of $1.4 Million was presented to Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) President, former West Indies Off-Spinner Roger Harper, as the New Building Society (NBS) yesterday...

Local content: We voted for this tragedy in 2015

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Local content: We voted for this tragedy in 2015

There are things that the APNU+AFC government has done that are so sickening that only a sick mind would want these people to be back in power. I stood in a picket line with several persons from the...

Demerara Rotary Off-road set for October 5th Mapping of routes completed

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Rotary Off-road set for October 5th Mapping of routes completed

The Rotary Club of Demerara had put out a challenge to motorsport enthusiasts to sign up for next month’s Off-road rally fundraising event on October 6th but due to a clash with the Caribbean...

Essential rehab, construction works for GDF bases

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Essential rehab, construction works for GDF bases

A number of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) bases, including Base Camps Seweyo and Stephenson, will be getting some much needed rehabilitation as well as construction works. The impending works were...

Kirsten Gomes – balanced youth excels on all fronts Junior holds her own in senior Championship

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kirsten Gomes – balanced youth excels on all fronts Junior holds her own in senior Championship

It is evident when we take a look at our junior sporting talent in Guyana, many of our promising young stars shine brightly in more than one discipline, and the exceptionally special 15 year old...

GRDB fraud case… Magistrate denies application to recall witness; prosecution closes case

Sep 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB fraud case… Magistrate denies application to recall witness; prosecution closes case

Following the denial of an application to recall a witness, Special Prosecutor Patrice Henry, yesterday closed his case in one of the trials against 39-year-old former accountant for the Guyana Rice...

Bounty Paper Towel & Solo Drinks Hockey Leagues This weekend’s fixtures released

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Paper Towel & Solo Drinks Hockey Leagues This weekend’s fixtures released

The Bounty Paper Towel -Quicker Picker Upper- Men’s And Women’s Outdoor, Second Division and the Solo Drinks Under-20 Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Development Leagues resumes this...

GSCL Inc clears the air on format of Prime Minister’s T20 Cup 3

Sep 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc clears the air on format of Prime Minister’s T20 Cup 3

The Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc has cleared the air on the format of the Prime Minister’s T20 Cup 3 which is set to commence on November 1 at several venues in the city. The...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more